poem for present needed desperately

behappyeveryday

Mon, Dec 02 2013, 7:33 pm

Buying in laws a gift certificate at restaurant, (la marais) can anyone give me a four line poem to go with it. If possible intertwine st about Chanukah. Need it in three hours from now so please help!

amother

Tue, Dec 03 2013, 12:34 am

Demand much?
I could do it, but it would cost you.
But then if you can afford la marais you can afford my fees.
May I ask why four lines and not three, five or six?
And why for pete's sake a poem?
Verse isn't inherently superior to prose
And rhyme is not the same as poetry.
Why do you think it's better to give the parents of your beloved
A quartet of rhyming lines penned by a stranger
Who knows them not at all and cares about them less
Than to give them three or four lines
Penned by your loving self
Expressing your love and gratitude
Or even just Chanuka greetings
You might not impress them with your cleverness
Which is good because the cleverness would be not yours but mine
But you'd garner points for sincerity
And in the Game of Family Life
Sincerity beats Cleverness every time.

Any rhymes in this prose poem are purely accidental.